Montgomery Clift News

Tonight and tomorrow night TCM is playing films set in Texas, all with an Oscar connection .

Everyone wants his place in the sun, where everything is bright and warm, where beauty and comfort are taken for granted, and where everything always seems to fall into place.

Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart was born in Salzburg on this date in 1756.

John Huston's "Freud," with Montgomery Clift in the title role, was underrated by the critics and under-respected by the college freshmen with whom I saw it in the mid-1960s. During the scene where Monty gives Susannah York a sexy new negligee, one wise guy shouted out, "Hey, it's a Freudian slip!" Then and now, it's hard to resist irreverence when ... (more)

Montgomery Clift and Lee Remick in Elia Kazan's Wild River. Photograph courtesy of Academy Film Archive and Twentieth Century Fox.